Prior to joining the UT faculty, Dr. Damien held faculty appointments at Duke University and the Michigan Business School. He also consults for many Fortune 500 firms worldwide and earned his PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College, London.

Professor Damien has published over 60 academic and proprietary papers in leading interdisciplinary journals and companies. Representative publications are: European Journal of Operational Research, Psychometrika, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Journal of Applied Probability and Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.

He has been nominated “Outstanding Teacher” by both undergraduate and graduate students.